This book explores gender topics related to social transitions and social struggles in the context of the urban transformations accompanying the evolving political economy of China’s New Era, here defined as the period since 2017.
Analyzing a range of feminist perspectives, and empirically based feminist research, this book investigates the ways in which national policies and campaigns imposed under the discursive political framing of the New Era seep into the everyday lives of people, influencing how societies are transformed and how urban spaces, gendered social practices, lived experiences, and subjectivities are being (re)shaped and modified. Through explorations of these aspects of the New Era, this book reveals the new challenges and possibilities faced by different gendered social groups in contemporary Chinese society.
Providing rich deliberations on gender topics related to urban developments in China’s New Era, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of China studies, gender and women’s studies, and urban studies.
1. Feminist Explorations of Urban China
Penn Tsz Ting Ip
Part I: Social Transitions: Contesting the Urban Middle Class
2. Gender Dynamics of Hypergamy: Insights from Parents in Shanghai’s Matchmaking Corner
Yingchun Ji, Yue Liu, and C. Cindy Fan
3. Queer Exploration of a Mobile China: The Transnational Journey of Queer Women from China
Lucetta Y. L. Kam
4. Urbanizing Entrepreneurial Women in China: The Chinese State, Female Entrepreneurs and Urban Redevelopment
Yujing Tan and Zhao Zhou
5. Anti-Marriage Feminism on Weibo: Alternative Discursive Space and Obscured Structure of Feeling
Zexu Guan
Part II: Social Struggles: The Everyday Lives of the Working Class
6. Memory in Action: Elderly Women Protesting the Demolition of a Temple
Lena Scheen
7. Spatialized Emotional Labor and Female Sellers’ Work in Shanghai: The Case of the W Store of Ai Brand
Yihui Su and Jinjin Du
8. The Female Genealogies of Grassroots Families: Mother-Daughter Relationships during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Shanghai’s Workers’ New Villages in the New Era
Penn Tsz Ting Ip, Yu Zhang, Jie Xu
9. Class and Gender: The Deformation of Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
Danxue Zhou and Xi Liu
Biography
Penn Tsz Ting Ip is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities, Language and Translation at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, and a core member of the SSHRC-funded partnership project “Urbanization, Gender and the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network (GenUrb)” based at the City Institute, York University, Toronto.
